Online brothel racket busted in Hyderabad

Sleuths of Special Operation Team of Rachakonda Police Commissionerate, along with local police, arrested four persons, who were organising inter-State brothel houses online under the limits of Rachakonda and rescued five victims and seized 11 cellphones, one car and Rs 32,000 from their possession. Police said that the organisers of brothels attracted customers through websites and started uploading pages giving their particulars and phone numbers with attractive photos and a variety of ‘services’ being offered by the prostitutes.

The SOT cracked down an online prostitution and arrested D Prabhakar alias Ravi, 42, of Rethibowli, Mehdipatnam, V Nagesh alias Tony, 28, of Noor Nagar, Road No 10, Banjara Hills, Ch Ravi Verma, 27, of Kundanbagh, Begumpet, Anu Sharma, 21, of DLF Phase-3, Gurgoan, Haryana, and Renuka Kashyap, 19, of Gadigoon, south Delhi. While perusing the online prostitution, SOT



sleuths apprehended another organiser and rescued three victims, all from New Delhi, and one Salma Fatima, 29, of Hakeempet, Tolichowki.

Police said that D Prabhakar and Prachi Sharma uploaded their cellphone numbers on a porn website and procured call girls from different parts of the country. Prachi Sharma of New Delhi organised prostitution in Hyderabad. She procured prostitutes from New Delhi and with the help of the contacts, she called them to Hyderabad and gave them shelter in various hotels in Hyderabad. She charged Rs 10,000 to Rs 60,000 depending on the time of stay of prostitutes with the customers.

The arrests were made under the guidance of Mahesh Bhagwath, Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda, under direct supervision of E Ramchandra Reddy, Additional DCP, SOT, by K Narsing Rao, Surender, Inspectors of Police, Ramulu, SI, and staff of SOT Rachakonda Police Commissionerate.